Navy Installation Command News Today

Amid a growing push by Navy leaders to improve the lives and conditions for sailors, the sea service's installation command is building four new child-care facilities and has plans for 12 more over the next several years.

Two former day care workers at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii will serve short jail sentences for charges that they harmed an Army officer’s toddler in a Navy-run child care facility, according to online court records and the family.

Every installation has its own set of unique challenges and requirements, but the Security Department of Naval Air Station Pensacola has more than most.

By ROSE L. THAYER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 16, 2020 AUSTIN, Texas — The Navy has hired two special education lawyers as part of a three-year pilot program to expand support for service members enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program. The two civilian attorneys, who have a background in special education law, began in November to assist families trying to get services for special needs children through federal laws put into practice differently in school districts ac...